The Indian Premier League (IPL) franchise Kings XI Punjab (KXIP) on Thursday released eleven players, including hard-hitting Kashmiri batsman Manzoor Dar (Pandav) ahead of the IPL 2019 players auction to be held next year.

Pandav was picked up by Bollywood actress Preity Zinta co-owned franchisee, in players’ auction for Rs 20 lakhs during last season of the cash rich league.

Manzoor was second cricketer from Jammu and Kashmir to find place in IPL main team after Parvez Rasool, but he was not included in the playing eleven in any of the matches.

Mark Twain once famously quipped, ‘If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you’re mis-informed.’ And it holds true even today, infact it is more pronounced in this day and age of social media, reflected in the way our main stream media is reporting these days . The truth gets drowned in the loud voices of political party representatives and generously paid participants, each one of them pushing his own agenda.